The quantitative content of statistical mechanics |
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| Institution: | 1. Balliol College, Oxford, United Kingdom;2. Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;1. Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Akademiehof, Friedrichstr. 10, 1010 Vienna, Austria;2. Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Operng. 9, 1040 Vienna, Austria;1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, PO Box 3060, STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 3R4, Canada;2. Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche “Enrico Magenes” - CNR, via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy;1. University of Amsterdam, Department of Dutch, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of English, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;1. College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, 2-11-1 Shin-ei, Narashino, Chiba 275-8576, Japan;2. Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom;3. Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház utca 30, 1014 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Abstract: | I give a brief account of the way in which thermodynamics and statistical mechanics actually work as contemporary scientific theories, and in particular of what statistical mechanics contributes to thermodynamics over and above any supposed underpinning of the latter?s general principles. In doing so, I attempt to illustrate that statistical mechanics should not be thought of wholly or even primarily as itself a foundational project for thermodynamics, and that conceiving of it this way potentially distorts the foundational study of statistical mechanics itself. |
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| Keywords: | Statistical mechanics Thermodynamics Emergence |
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